COMPANY: Harmonia Mundi
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Antoine Forqueray

Product: 3149020934968

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In her debut recording for harmonia mundi, Lucile Boulanger explores the facets of Antoine Forqueray’s career as a virtuoso instrumentalist: adept in a wide range of Italian repertoire and skilled at transcribing works originally intended for the violin, he could try it on for size, as it were, before settling on a different medium.

With the viola da gamba, he extended the technique of playing it far beyond the norm, confronting the performer with fiendishly difficult challenges… which have been met brilliantly by the hugely talented foursome heard here.

Corelli: Violin Sonata Op. 5 No. 3 in C major
Forqueray, A: La Leclair
Forqueray, A: Suite No. 4 in G minor
Forqueray, J-B: La Morangis ou La Plissay for harpsichord
Leclair, J-M: Sonata II (from Quatriéme Livre de Sonates)
Mascitti: Sonata II, Op. 1
Visée: La Venitienne de Mr. Forqueroy